Dong Nguyen

Flappy Bird: 50M downloads, ~$50K/day, then killed on purpose

Sam tells the story of Dong Nguyen's Flappy Bird, downloaded 50 million times in about two months and making roughly $50K a day, which he famously shut off because it was 'too addicting.' Sam celebrates the move to build something huge and then walk away.

“And it apparently was making around $50K a day in revenue. And he famously tweeted after 2 or 3 or something months. This is too addicting. I'm turning it off. And I actually don't know if he turned it off or not, but I love the idea of someone creating something and saying, all right, I'm out, and killing it. I love that tactic. I love that story.”